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Comment by delinsme

Duo'ed by two 60 Hunters, no raid gearTo get keyed:Talk to him, he runs away, catch him, talk to him again.. rinse and repeat until he runs up to a balcony alone in The Hidden Reach area of the zone.Find him on the balcony, talking to him will spawn five (5) fire imps. Kill these and engage Pusillin.Tips:1. If you can feign or vanish once talking to him, you can kill his imps without aggro'ing him.2. Fire resist resist matters here, mad fire damage (imps nuke)3. Pusillin is a straight up fight, quick he has little HP4. Drops the key, congrats!

Comment by CrazedWarrior

Pusillin is immune to gouge and blind but he is not immune to kick, cheap shot, or kidney shot so you can get a partial stunlock on him. A rogue can take him down if it is done right maybe a rogue and a healer also. It is good to bring some fire resistant gear with you since he seems to be a bit of a pyromaniac.

Comment by FirefoxUzi

Was able to solo this guy as a 70 Affliction Warlock.I had my Imp out for the Fire Shield resist bonus, which helped a lot. I found if I talked to Pusillin, then backed off maybe 10 yards, only his imps aggro you, and not Pus himself. That leaves you free to take on Pus 1v1, which is a piece of cake.

Comment by Klarno

He has a spell reflect ability that doesn't have a sound or obvious appearance like like the mobs in gnomer or tempest keep do...so be careful. Duoed him as 70 affliction lock with a 65 enh shaman healing. Voidwalker helps with tanking the 5 imps.

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Comment by mdramige

Killed myself the first time fighting this guy not knowing about the spell reflect and having my imp out. The 2nd time I had my felhunter out thinking that he'd be able to devour that reflect, but it's not dispellable. I just had the felhunter melee him down and I tested siphon life on him every time devour magic was up.

Comment by DanUpright

Soloed him as a 63 warlock, demo/affliction spec using improved voidwalker - pulled the imps seperately and killed them with curse of agony and rain of fire (used hypnotist's watch when i pulled aggro).

Then let the voidwalker tank Pusillin while i wanded him to death.

Comment by advada

soloed 70 Arcane - Fire mage, didn't know it has a spell reflect died with my own pyro. Then I just mana shield and wand it to death. of course I resisted a lot of its fireball, and I have fire ward.

Comment by ZnakeByte

Soloed as full arcane mage 70. Died a couple of times on my way inn. The 5 imps i just aoe'd to death. Allmost got myself killed when i used arcane power and the spell-reflect kicked inn, but survived (with 286 health left). Not too easy, but doable, as do not have great gear or skills :)

Comment by oded

Who cares that you soloed it? rally useless comment.

Comment by Pazhala

I killed him with a 70 mage. Started his little chase-thing by running in and clicking on him at each stage of the chase. I had to use invisibility once to get by one of the big tree guys. I carefully snuck past/killed mobs along the way.At his final destination I clicked on him then immediately Blinked away. Only his adds aggro'd, and after killing them he was all mine. Being lvl 70, I resisted95% of his fireballs. He kept spell reflecting nearly EVERYTHING i threw at him, so i just wanded him to death, throwing up fire wards here and there just in case. All in all, i suffered about 400 dmg and used zero mana. It just took about 3 mins because all I attacked with was my wand.

Comment by vejron

If you're a mage, like me, you don't even need this key. With some zk33ls I managed to blink through all the doors to the library. Took some time, but it was worth it since I finally got rid of my "The Arcanist's Cookbook". :) Good luck blinking! Keys sucks.

Comment by Htiek

Just solod him on my 62 enhancement shammy. When he brings his adds out i just threw a stoneclaw totem and it pulled them and stuned them long enough for me to kill him and then take them out. Very easy. Enjoy

Comment by eita

Should've checked here first.

"Your Pyroblast Crits you for 4567 Your Arcane Missiles Hits you for 856Your Arcane Missiles crit you for 1494Your Arcane Missiles crit you for 1494Your Arcane Missiles hits you for 856You die"

5 reflects in a row.A. I need more healthB. I should've used a wand

Comment by A00627213

He doesn't reflect Arcane Explosion

Comment by entropicdragon

The buff which causes him to reflect spells is called Spirit of Runn Tum -- it also makes him large and increases his attack speed.

Comment by EvilTheCat

Just soloed this with my 70 Mage.

At first, I did what everyone else did and threw my biggest spells at him .. huge mistake.

The spell reflect mechanics, however, don't reflect AOE spells.

Flamestrike, Blizzard and Arcane Explosion will work well.

Warlocks have reign of fire, the only class I see having a problem with him is priests, having no AoE spells will make this a wand and heal fight.

Comment by netricate

I don't have a mage, but it would be interesting to see if you can spellsteal his buff. Anyone tried?

Comment by Pillenfresser

Soloed as a 70 Holy Paladin. Not easy, but not too hard.The Warpwood Crushers will pull aggro pretty soon but the rest is rather easy to avoid. Still a challenge alone. :)One run cost me 7 Manna Biscuits but it was worth it since I got everything I wanted from him.

Comment by Zebx

Soloed this guy on my 65 rogue with barely any problems, his immune to gouge and blind but not against kidney shot / Cheap shot and Kick so you can get a fairly good stun lock on him still. He spawns 6 little non-elite imps which you can pull away without getting him after you too.

Comment by Devin

Any idea/knowledge if he reflects reflected damage attacks such as Holy Shield? Or does he ever hit you melee?

Comment by leanbeef

You need to start an event by speaking to an imp in the main part of DM. Enter via the east entrance, walk in and look to your left, you will find the imp jumping around there. Speak to him and get the event started.

Now look to your right, you will see a whole bunch of mobs, you will need to clear a path to catch up to the imp (don't worry, he won't dissapear, it's not an escort quest) so get to killin!. I don't think an explination on how to kill trash is really needed. =P

Watch out for the Warp Crushers, because regardless of the level difference, they apparently still aggro to you and you do not want one of them on you while you are busy killing the other groups of trees. The Cushers hit quite hard and can't be frost nova'd, so make sure you kill the mobs around them before you take one of those guys on. (I know how hard it is for us mages to fight the urge to take on as many mobs as we can, we are just so uber like that >.> but they all stun and some of them do nature damage debuffs, and you dont want them all doing it to you at the same time! So take care!)

Clear all the way down and then turn left and clear some more. Clear enough so that you are able to approach Pusillin again without aggroing other mobs to you. Once you have gotten this far, you basically rinse and repeat from here on.

You will eventually come to a "balcony" of sorts. You will know it's the end of the chase because there is nowhere left to go but back tht eway you came. Make sure you have full health/mana, talk to him again and prepare to meet you maker! But before you continue, be aware that once he turns hostile, all non-aoe attacks will be reflected back onto you. To avoid taking extra damage from your own attacks, you need to use aoe attacks/spells. Frost nova, cone of cold, ice snap, frost nova, cone of cold, AE and they are dead. (You may need to throw in a few extra AE's to finish off Pusillin.

And tada!!! You have your Crescent Key!!! Gratsorz!!!!

Comment by talent

To get the Crescent Key;

1. Enter Dire Maul - East.

2. Move to 62, 68 and talk to Pusillin. He runs a short distance away. Follow Him.

3. Talk to him and follow him another 4 times until he finally ends up at 85, 71.

4. Talk once more and be prepared to fight. Kill him and his adds, loot for the Crescent Key.

Comment by Xanthu

Soloed as 70 RESTO druid. I went in to get the cooking recipe he drops for leveling my cooking to 300, which btw, is an awesome recipe to do that with, and the mats are located right inside DM!!!

This boss does refelct everything, EXCEPT AOE damage. He opens the fight with some non-elite imps that go down fast. Then you actually get a break to drink. Open attacks on him with your AOE, mine being Hurricane. When its on CD, I switched to kitty form and DPS'ed him until the CD was up. Repeat Hurricane and melee DPS until he dies. At level 70, mostly all of his attacks (fireballs or something) were completly resisted by me.

Nice and easy to do. Free recipe and the Crescent key.

Comment by Excrucio

He's Found in DM north.

Once u enter u will see a imp standing on the right when u come out to the open. Basically all i did was formed a party so i could mark him. Placed a mark (Skull) on him and chased him around. he runs around the innetial area above thats a big rectangle. and usually stops infront of the big tree dues. They still agroed me (lvl 70) so be careful. do this about 4-5times he'll run into a chamber and wait for u to talk to him 1 last time. Then he will spawn adds about 5-6 of em.

U will not agro him killing the adds. He was a pretty ez boss. was hitting me about 150-200. (fury 9k armour).

Soloed as a 70 fury warrior.time to kill onyxia for my quel serra.

Comment by enkage

ahem, he's in DM east

Comment by Aristocrates

The only major problems are the Crushers, really... just follow along the edge of the balcony and be very aware of the roaming pats of trees. Try to pull a Crusher to a safe spot and have your voidwalker tank it while you DoT it up and spam drain life. When you get to the corners, you should kill the Lashers there (using the same method as killing the Crushers) and pull nearby Crushers all the way back to kill them. Again, always be mindful of the tree patrols and try to kill mobs in areas where they do not roam. It's very tricky, but once you get past this, the hard part is over.

You can take a detour after you pass all the warpwoods to collect bloods for your other quest if you like. When I finally got to the end, I just blew an AoE fear on the imps that spawned and threw siphon and corruption on each of them (you can put CoA on there, too, for good measure). While you're doing this, you can either have your voidwalker soak up the fireballs from Pusillin, or you can just LoS around till the imps are dead.

Getting DoTs on Pusillin is tricky, as he's likely to reflect a good bit of them. However, if you're using Fel Armor, you can test out siphon on him... if it reflects, it will still heal you for more than it hurts you. I mainly just had to have my voidwalker melee it down while I wanded. You'll resist most of his fireballs, but have your healthstone handy just in case.

Once he's dead, finish up collecting satyr blood. There's an exit near where you killed Pusillin in case you need to zone out and reset. Good luck!

Comment by chepe92

I went with my cousin as 70's...but he wasnt there...cartographer said he was near the exit...but he wasnt there...is he a rare spawn or is he in another place?

Comment by Gibil

Solo'ed as a 70 Warrior, a little raid gear, but he was no problem. Just talked to him and then rapidly backed away, and he didn't aggro. The imps went down like so many bowling pins, and then I just pounded on him until he was a fine paste. Never got below about 70%.

Comment by bbque

Now I know why blizzard called this guy Pusillin. He's just a (first 4 letters).Chepe92, Pusillin is located on the left side when you enter through the main entrance.

Comment by zuiko

Warlocks: Beware that he reflects Seed of Corruption blasts onto you if you use it to take down his imp minions and he gets caught in the blast. Even though it is an AoE you take damage from it. He is super easy to wand down, though. Didn't have to heal starting at less than half life from my seeds of corruption exploding on me.

Comment by Orforio

Soloed as a 70 Druid bear in full Heavy Clefthoof set. At the end of the fight I was still at 100% health, I should imagine that even for less-geared druids this fight should pose no problem.

Don't forget to back away after you talk to him for the last time, he won't aggro.

Comment by Jagganath

Any rogue tried to pickpocket the KEY instead ???

Comment by Zesha

To solo this guy with mage or any caster type you gotta use area of effect spells (AoE) like blizzard, arcane explosion etc, all direct targeted spells will be reflect or nearly all. Or stick to your wand/melee weapon, if ur 70 he doesnt do much dmg

Comment by PocketFox

Very easy solo for a 70 rogue in mostly Kara gear and lower. Just snuck around after him, Vanished to avoid the occasional hard-hitting Ancient, and avoided the stealth-seeing satyr. His little imps went down easily with Blade Flurry and Killing Spree, and Pusillin himself was a joke. I don't think I got hit by a single Fireball, and I snagged myself another recipe for my collection. :)

Comment by Tankadyn

I soloed him on my lvl 62 ret paladin. He was pretty easy compared to the trash leading up to the actual fight. When I finally started the encounter I had forgotten to drink up so my mana was at half. I took on the adds and Pusillin at the same time by just using consecrate and Holy Wrath. After a couple ticks of consecrate and the Holy Wrath the adds were dead.

Don't try to repent Pusillin because it reflects; I believe Hammer of Justice does too. Ret Paladins can use every other damaging attack they have against him EXCEPT judgments, Exorcism, and Hammer of Wrath. Everything else is an AOE or counts as a melee attack (crusader strike). He went down pretty easily without need to heal or bubble.

Comment by aquasword

hes such a friendly imp why cant we just play his games and not kill him

Comment by roflkyae

Am I the only one who just wants the Recipe?

Comment by kazekage92

Just soloed him with destro speced lock 70lvl full merc

Comment by Kalisha

Just as a note for the WotLK generation working on this for the key (or recipe) - very few people will have an issue soloing him at level 80.

Use the main East entrance. Once inside, you'll find Pusillin outside of the entrance hallway to your left. When you talk to him he'll ask if you want to play a game, insult you, and then run off at sonic speed.

You don't have to keep up with him, just follow in the general direction he goes. Killing anything isn't necessary here, you can simply walk around the majority of mobs. Warpwood Crushers still have a relatively large aggro range, but they're easy to dispose of. The light blue pods on the ground have a chance of poisoning you if you go too near, or dropping Thornling Seeds or Runn Tum Tubers.

Eventually Pusillin will lead you to a secluded area, summon a few imps, and attack you. The fight itself is less eventful than making your way over to him.

Comment by Derithor

Seems to be some kind of bug with him. After I chased him down the long corridor, I was clicking to start the phase where he runs to the balcony and it kept disconnecting me and pusillin would despawn when I logged back in.

I ran out of the instance portal nearest to him and reset the instance and started again. Again he bugged and again I DC'd then logged back in and it worked fine.

Easily solo-able as a level 80 Unholy Deathknight, just dropped Death and Decay under him built up runic power on his adds and dropped Unholy Blight.

Comment by xaurum

Went in solo at 73 with my fire mage.We have a nifty spell reflect of our own. Talented, of course, Molten Shields. I was putting up my fire ward, and one of his fireballs that I reflected crit and Ignited!From one pyro to another, TAKE THAT YOU FREAKING IMP!Of course, I was lucky enough to have read everyone's comments here, and the heads up on the spell reflect of his was helpful.Thanks!

Comment by Dyne

Dropped forors on my 80 pala :D

Comment by beaninfo

I did this as a 67 unholy Deathknight. I died once because I wasnt careful and attracted the attention of too many things.Things to note:1) go in the main entrance not the side entrance.2) you will aggro the big trees but they are no trouble unless you get a patrol also.3) stay along the outside of the ledge and you will only agro the big trees4) There is a point where you will have to fight 3 small trees and one big tree. Pull the 3 small trees and kill the caster first - heal then pull the big tree. If you try to sneak by you will get them all. Be carefull of your AoE or you will get more mobs than you want.5) when you get to the room where the satyrs are you can easily take 3 at a time. On of the 3 is usually a ranged type so make sure you stay on him.6) when Pusillin agros he spawns a bunch of imps - these are normal imps and your aoe will take care of them. Pusillin didnt seem to reflect our diseases so disease him up and share it.7) some of the flower type things will be resistant to disease.

Comment by voruc

Pusillin says: Say hello to my little friends!

EPIC!1!

Comment by SenthaiOverlord

Pusillin is a reference to the word "pusillanimous" (or "pussy"). Both mean "cowardly", which is fitting since he runs away from you all around the instance, when cornered he can't fight without a bunch of minions, and he cheats too with that spell reflector power.

Comment by ZelasMetallium

Anyone know if he drops the key for everyone in the party or just one person gets it like the Key to the City? I'm headed in with two guildies for the key achievement and would like to know if it will only take one run.

Edited to add: If anyone still needs the answer to this question the answer is yes, everyone in the party gets a key.

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Comment by wooly11

Cat in The Hat much?

Comment by 1everlasting1

Just read all this stuff while i was sitting in front of Pusillin, <AFK> and glad i did. The spell reflect information was very important.

So i loaded my screen back up and Solo'd him on my 67 Holy Pally. Mostly in low 60's blues and greens. The poster above is correct that if you get away from him fast enough right when you talk to him the last time on the balcony, only his imps will aggro and that makes the whole thing much easier, especially if you're going in lower than a lvl 70.

Holy wrath did stun... and Did Not reflect. His reflect seems not to be up 100% of the fight so you might get lucky with a shock (i did) and concecrate + melee for 'strike heals' pretty much made this a wait and watch fight of about 45 sec to 1 min.

At 67 i was able to avoid almost any mob i wanted accept the warpwood crushers, as their aggro distance is large.

I was not in DM to do any quests or get the key, i was actually farming living essences (very slowly, lol) so I actually cleard the terrace myself and then chased Pusillin. afterward, i went back to terrace and jumped down to garden where i also cleard... only got 4 essence, so sad :( then i went on to try and tackle the demon shape shifter boss......... and wiped, lmao. Oh well it was time to leave anyway.

Comment by redrummer

I completed the key and Enchanted Thorium Armor II yesterday. I have a Lvl 74 Arms Warrior. The majority of the mobs were no difficulty as long as I met them in smaller groups. I did wipe on Tendris after doing my quest and coming out of the library and I wiped once on my way in when I aggroed a large group.

Comment by lecktor

The most important thing: He DOES NOT reflect AoE spells.

Comment by bataa976

As you can see his loot, his existence is very unique. He is not just another dungeon elite that drops armors and weapons.

His loot is the only solution to level up Cooking to 300 without fishing. All other non fishing cooking receipt will stuck at 295. From there you will have to fish to increase Cooking to 300 unless you go taking down this guy. That is why Recipe: Runn Tum Tuber Surprise is uncommon quality item, and practically he is the only one that drop the reagent for this receipt Run Tum Tuber up to 5 stacks.

So I love this guy because I hate fishing :)

And of course I did not deny his unique personality, purpose Crescent Key and class specific quest item loots.

Comment by Shinpachi222

Pusillin's existence is core. Without him to chase, Sarufang's cleave could tear the world asunder from overuse.

Comment by Talbot

Or if Cenarion Circle is hated by you.

Comment by mzygi

I just soloed him as lvl 57 combat rogue, it took me a long time but it's doable. First, when you get to him after the chase, talk to him, wait until the lesser imps come and kill a few of them with all your cooldowns. When you're low on health, use vanish, stealth away, heal up and wait for cooldowns to refresh. Repeat this until all small imps are dead, then attack Pussilin with all your cooldowns again. As most of his spells are interruptible, use Kick and Kidney Shot as much as possible. You might have to use a potion, I finished the fight at ~200 hp.Edit: Now yay for 300 cooking finally :)

Comment by thinkinonit

Soloed him with 74 Resto Shaman, Had healing stream totem, nature resist tot, Greater Fire Elemantal totem (Has AOE that kills all his Wildspawn Imps) And Earthbind Totem. I place earthshield on The Greater Fire Elemental and Water Shield on myself. All of them aggroed on the Greater Fire Elemental including Pusillin, I just hit him with my staff and I took no damage. Very easy, no healing or casting done. Pusillin dropped the cresent key along with Run Tum Tuber Surprise Recipe, 8 silver, 20 copper, and "The emerald Dream" scroll that begins a druid quest.

Comment by Omnislash89

If say, for some reason this guy doesn't show up in DM East, even after you have the quest to kill him, should I contact a GM or what? I've never encountered a problem this integral to the spawnscript of the game.

I go in, look to my left...and it's the same as my right. Nothing but pats and mob groups. No imp.

Comment by StaysiC

Say hello to my little friends!

Comment by shamanking

Lol i wanted to kill this guy to get the key he drops for the other sides of dire maul cuz i wanted to farm some rugged leather with my 73lvlshammy to skill up my leatherworking proffesion.In the beggining it took me about 30minutes to clear the whole upper floor cuz about 90% of the mobs there are immune to nature school spells (ligthning bolt, chain lightning etc.) and i was forced to use my magma totem to clear them all out.After that, i started chasing the little imp and when it finally was over and engaged him i didn't remember of his spell reflection ability and i almost died :PBut, i managed to kill him one shot and i farmed A LOT of rugged leather :D

Comment by Bramaveg

Pusillin is a direct descendant of Nillipuss from the original Everquest MMO.

Nillipuss was boastful brownie (very small, mischievous 'imp-like' humanoid) that scurried about the halfling starting area taunting players to try and catch him. Likewise, he also had a taste for tubers, though Nillipuss preferred "jum jums" to "rum tums".

thanks to Nillipuss, i've had the following quote seared in my pathetic, dorkified brain for nearly a decade now:

"Nillipuss, Nillipuss is my name. Stealing jumjum is my game. Think you can catch me? Let's see if you can! I'll always run faster than you ever ran."

i'm pretty sure this going to be the only time i'll ever get to use this knowledge... in fact, i hope, for the love of god, that it is.

Comment by Gervig

Reminds me alot of Bart Simpson

Comment by kohmk

The guy's name sounds like medicine.

Comment by JWOWW79

Soo I soloed this on my lvl 60 Pally to farm enchanting mats, I got the recipe drop, but no key? Did I miss something?

Comment by Calmshadows

Yeah having the same issue... No key....

Comment by k82994

Now that Cata is live the key doesn't drop from Pusillin. To get through the door you need to talk to the tree in the courtyard and he'll break down the door for you. He'll only do it after you have killed all the bosses in the instance. Not sure if Pusillin is considered one of the bosses needed to be killed in order to talk to the tree.

Comment by Species3259

Instead of a key he now runs around with a book for you to catch. Quest can be obtained upon entering the West wing.

Comment by Chummy62

Hunters; Do not make the mistake I made. Got all the way to the end and when he summoned the other mobs, I attacked them and my pet killed him. Could not claim the recipe because he was not lootable. Will try again tomorrow.

Update: Abandoned the quest then went back in and He was there waiting for me. Put pet on passive and quickly completed the quest.

Comment by 252thsghs

Confirming that I got the drop from him for the Recipe: Runn Tum Tuber Surprise after "chasing" through Dire Maul.

*Spoiler* (I had to kill him though!)

(...only 3 more recipes for Iron Chef Achievement...yes!)

Comment by Deekline

For some reason, Pusillin doesn't show up to me... I have to kill him for the recipe, I'm very close to Iron Chef; anyone has any idea what do I have to do to encounter him? Except what's written here until now, of course :) Thank you in advance.

EDIT: OK, I found the little guy, just had to look for him :D Took me less then 5 minutes to chase him and snatch the recipe. Here's a drawing I made with his location.

Comment by DaveJK

Killed this little bugger twice and neither got the quest finished or the Recipe. Any suggestions or was the recipe removed in 4.3?

Comment by coml123

soloed as level 38 fire mage

Comment by Wyr3d

Pusillin still has a small chance to drop the cresent key, despite what Wowhead says about it being removed from the game. Though admittedly, it is pretty useless now :D

Comment by Wyr3d

This little imp still have a small chance to drop the crescent key, despite wowhead's claim that it was removed from the game. It's pretty usless now, but it's still fun to know he's not just blabbering on insanely when he talks about the key :P